Gars Telecom and Exepto announce strategic partnership

16.08.11

Exepto and Gars Telecom carriers specialize on the corporate market servicing, realize niche solutions for large and medium companies. At the same time carriers’ businesses don’t compete, but complement each other. In the companies the synergic effect by networks joint and product line extension are expected.

Gars Telecom Group of Companies’ telecom-infrastructure covers 320+ real estate objects in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg, total area counts about 6 mln square meters.

“Although our clients choose us as a company, managing telecommunication across the whole country, we never planned of regional backbone construction, — Pavel Gorenkov, Gars Telecom CEO narrates, — Our traditional contractors for backbone segment are Rostelecom and TTK. But we have been looking for a partner with last mile experience in regions for quite a long time”.

Corporate networks organization and last mile construction in regions — is the main business line of Exepto. Up to federal clients’ requests the company has built a multiservice network, uniting 50+ backbone nodes and 190+ access points in 64 federal subjects. “Gars Telecom’s expertise in the field of customers care and special terms of access to partner’s network recourses and last miles in two capitals will be useful for further Exepto’s efficiency development”, — Pavel Fedorov, Exepto General Director supposes.

“Exepto and Gars Telecom are mature in their niches carriers, possessing steady relations with their clients, — Pavel Gorenkov suggests, — That is why there is a principal agreement not to compete in respect of clients, which are still serviced by their carriers.”

“The end beneficiaries are mostly the clients of both carriers, which will get a wider services line and as the result — new opportunities for business development”, — Pavel Fedorov assures.

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“Gars Telecom” profile: telecommunication management, integration projects realization and telecommunication services rendering. Company is oriented at cooperation with big-sized corporate clients and telecom-carriers. Along with tradition telecom-services company renders services in telecom-consulting, outsourcing of the communication services and telecom-infrastructure, and also telecom-budget management.
Since 2003 Gars Telecom has become the only Russian Virtual Mobile Network Operator for corporate sector. Host provider is Megafon.

Company exclusively realizes in Russia specialized telecom-solutions for commercial real estate market that fit international BLEC standard (Building Local Exchange Carrier), and develop telecom-consulting practice in Russian development market.

By the beginning of 2011 the total amount of the serviced area has overpassed 6’000’000 square meters.